Check before EXCHANGING... but HOW ?

[gsoul2soul]

I want to exchange my older (3 years old) "Seagate 80 GB HD"... with a new "Samsung 80 GB / 7200 rpm" HD

But before i switch... I want to see, if NEW HD has error or not... you know "Bad Sector" and all

Anyways I can see ? (the NEW 80 GB is in NTFS format)

Please... help!!!

 

[Anand_RF]

In windowsxp, if you do a chkdsk, it gives you details on whether a drive has bad sectors or not. To do chdsk - start >> run. type chkdsk x: where x is the letter of the drive. Do this for all drives, at the end of the test it'll give you results saying "x kb in bad sectors." You're lucky if the x here is 0. If not, all I can tell you is - Don't buy.

 

[gsoul2soul]

well.. it does work thanks...

********* BUT *********

how can i see the result ?

My computer...will close the cmd prompt soooo FAST

i can barely read the result

Do you have good softwares and all ? to see, in windows itself ?

thx
Soul

 

[Anand_RF]

Windows is the best software you'll need.
Do this -
Start >> Run. Type "cmd" then press enter. You should get a ms-dos style command prompt box.
*. Now type chkdsk x: where x: is your drive letter. The rest is as I said in that post, only this time, the command prompt window wont close after completion. It'll stay open for you to view. See the x kb in bad sectors line.

 

[gsoul2soul]

i just checked me disks (old ones)

and... in C: the result shows this:

8193118 KB total disk space.
3751456 KB in 28381 files.
9432 KB in 2353 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.

Now.. .that "0 KB in bad sectors"... came up !!!

in other partition... when i check " nothing with bad sector showed"

so... that means there is Bad sector in C: ?
(it's just that there is no, data in it? ) HELP !!!

 

[akshayt]

hdtach

 

[caleb]

Hi akshayt

that was a very helpful tip...I used to check for bad sectors in dod mode when I use to have win98se...but when I switched to XP a couple of years ago I struggeld a great deal to get the results in XP until today. Thanks for your tip. BTW you replied gsoul2soul with "hdtach" ...what does that mean?

 

[jz2linkinpark]

typed in cmd,but when it starts up it shows 'C:\Documents and Settings\welcome>'
so what should i do now?